Froma Harrop
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The long, hot summer of workJun 25, 2012 12:39 pm - With summer’s arrival comes a journalistic convention that seems more and more dated. It is the “summer reading list” of books, often beside a graphic showing a bathing ...
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A modern economy has universal health careJun 17, 2012 5:00 am - For now, let’s drop the talk about wanting a liberal America or a conservative America. What we truly need is a modern America. No country can be modern spending twice w...
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Praise for a one-ballot primaryJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - My right-wing friend, ginned up (literally) from his team’s impending “victory” in Wisconsin, called me on Tuesday night. I took some of his glow off by noting that I, t...
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Dumb money for dummiesJun 05, 2012 5:00 am - In the beginning, there was pump and dump. In the dot-com bubble of the late ’90s, the stock-analyzing arms of investment banks would pump up a new stock’s price with ra...
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The ‘geezers’ are right this timeMay 30, 2012 11:49 am - Alan Simpson let loose at a group of Californians who charged in a brochure that he and Erskine Bowles were “using the deficit to gut our Social Security.” The former Re...
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The United States of GamblingMay 25, 2012 5:00 am - A surprising fact: Gamblers spent more last year at commercial casinos in Indiana than they did at non-Indian casinos in all but three other states — not surprisingly, N...
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Grief is not a mental illnessMay 21, 2012 9:36 am - We moderns seem determined to suppress all unhappiness with one exception: grief. The intense sadness following loss of a loved one still occupies a warm spot in our cul...
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Silicon slummingMay 17, 2012 5:00 am - The Victorian era gave birth to a very unpleasant custom called slumming. Parties of swells in London and New York would descend on impoverished neighborhoods as a form ...
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Education should have 2nd and 3rd actsMay 11, 2012 11:34 am - On the HBO series “Girls,” Hannah asks her boss at a publishing house for a salary. The 24-year-old has been working as an unpaid intern for over a year, and her parents...
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Romney must chooseMay 08, 2012 5:00 am - You have to wonder why some gay advocates — like a few believers in birth control, global warming and evolution — remain loyal Republicans even as the right wing drags t...